The terms observership, externship and clerkship are sometimes used interchangeably in medical education which can cause some confusion for residency applicants. Applicants are often unsure of which experience to pursue and how residency program directors view each experience when examining a candidate’s clinical background. We will attempt to clarify the differences and provide guidance on[…]
As a fourth-year medical student, it was fairly easy to maintain a healthy lifestyle. When you have much leisure time and are relatively stress free, you can eat healthy, stay physically active and maintain quality mental health. However, as I begin the journey called residency, it is clear that the task of maintaining my own[…]
Source: Vox BRENDan Smialowski/AFP The median salary for anesthesiologists who started jobs last year was $300,000 — about twice as much as the pediatrician who just started off. The new survey of doctors’ median first-year pay after residency, published Wednesday by the Medical Group Management Association, shows huge variation in what doctors earn during their first[…]
Source: Residents Cafe An editorial published in this month’s Journal of the American College of Radiology updated the competitiveness of the 2014 residency match for the major 21 specialties. We had previously discussed the authors’ data in an earlier publication on the competitiveness of specialties from 2011 to 2013. They calculate each specialty’s competitiveness based on positions per[…]
Source: Dr. Samtani’s Blog I was 2 years out of my medical school and I had every month accounted for. Doing research, working as a clinical medical assistant, observership’s / externships and studying for the USMLE Steps simultaneously. Now came game time, the time to apply for residency. My passion is Cardiology, so Internal Medicine[…]
Source: Albert Einstein College of Medicine – Blog Viraj Patel and Carly Hirschberg, EiSci board members and second-year M.D. students at Einstein, visiting a Bronx high school class. What do you picture when you think of a doctor or scientist? We imagined that ninth graders at the Pelham Lab High School in the Bronx might[…]
Source: China Daily Members of the Shanghai USMLE Group at one of their gatherings yesterday. — Wang Rongjiang “Grey’s Anatomy,” the popular United States television series, is becoming a reality show for Shanghai medical students who want to become doctors in the US, but none will have the time watch it now. They are too[…]
Source: NY Times – Well Blog By BARRON H. LERNER, M.D. Each year hundreds of medical students think they have contracted the exact diseases they are studying. But they haven’t. “Medical students’ disease” refers to the phenomenon in which medical students notice something innocuous about their health and then attach to it exaggerated significance. It often[…]
Source: The Star New research shows that patient outcomes don’t benefit from shorter shifts and medical students fare worse on exams. RICK MADONIK / TORONTO STAR FILE PHOTO Dr. Najma Ahmed, a trauma surgeon at St. Michael’s Hospital, says part of residency is developing the stamina to deal with the pressures of the emergency room.[…]